He began the hearing by saying that in his 27-year career, "I've not seen a rape case with so much incriminating, credible and powerful evidence," and ended it by dismissing the motion. Three days later, he sentenced Frimpong to six years.

Yeah, the jury system is a really fucked up way of conducting a court of justice.

You pick a bunch of people from those who are too lazy or too stupid to find an excuse to skip jury duty, then let the lawyers remove everyone left who might have some ability of critical thinking (i.e. people that are hard to fool with lawyer bullshit), and then you expect them to deliver some kind of fair verdict?

And the worst thing is that this is all so goddamn obvious when you look at the statistics (especially the fact that black people on average get harsher punishments for the same crimes than whites), but nobody in power even tries to change any of it.

Yeah, the jury system is a really fucked up way of conducting a court of justice.

You pick a bunch of people from those who are too lazy or too stupid to find an excuse to skip jury duty, then let the lawyers remove everyone left who might have some ability of critical thinking (i.e. people that are hard to fool with lawyer bullshit), and then you expect them to deliver some kind of fair verdict?

And the worst thing is that this is all so goddamn obvious when you look at the statistics (especially the fact that black people on average get harsher punishments for the same crimes than whites), but nobody in power even tries to change any of it.

Again one sees with how little sense the world is ruled.

That's why I'm happy that to even sit in the judging body of a trial in Sweden, you have a 4 year old (I belive it is) Education on your back, the desition is reached by the judge aswell. All parts of it are educated in the proceedings and know how to filter through "lawyer bullshit".

Also.. about that case... I'm once again happy I'm happy I'm not american...